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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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101 Dalmatians The Original Novel
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Dodie Smith
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, June 22, 2010
This book delighted me when I was a child, and continues to do so nearly 40 years later. It was the first book I checked out of a library: from across the room, I spotted (so to speak) the tiny paw prints on the pink dust jacket, and it was love at first sight. Though at seven years old I didn't understand some of the British terms ("Mama, what does 'hire-purchase' mean? What's a verger and a vicar?"), I always preferred the book's wit, wealth of interesting supporting characters, and sleek pen-and-ink illustrations to anything in film versions of the story. If you've seen any of the movies but never read the book, you'll be surprised from the very first page.
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Mary Roach
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, January 17, 2010
One doesn't often associate "corpses" with "laugh-out-loud funny" (at least in non-fiction) but Mary Roach combines the two in this enlightening and strangely delightful book. The subject--the uses and disposal of dead bodies--may be the definition of macabre, but Roach treats it with goofy wit and, at the same time, respect. In addition to organ donation and their vital role in educating medical students, the dead have done and continue to do service to the living in other ways: acting as specialized crash-test dummies, generating data that can be used in solving crimes, and much more. Roach also explores historical uses and methods of collecting cadavers, preservation, and alternatives to burial and cremation. For readers who are inspired to let their bodies be of use in the future, she provides information about registering as an organ donor and about whole-body donation. Descriptions of the decay process might put off the very squeamish, but if you can watch an episode of _Bones_ while eating spaghetti, don't be afraid to read this thoughtful and entertaining book.
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